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- 0:06Nicole Laino: Oh, my goodness.
- 0:08Nicole Laino: This is our last episode of 2025, and I am it.
- 0:13Nicole Laino: I'm still in kind of disbelief that.
- 0:16Nicole Laino: That the year is over, that we're transitioning over into 2026 already.
- 0:20Nicole Laino: It's kind of crazy.
- 0:21Nicole Laino: And I know.
- 0:23Nicole Laino: I've noticed in my groups, talking to my friends and then even, you know, for myself, this last week of the year and certainly the last month, but like, the last week of, like, of that transition between the year we've been in and the year that we're going to, we can feel a lot of uncertainty.
- 0:46Nicole Laino: There's a little bit of, like, this.
- 0:47Nicole Laino: We're not doing anything, but can we really relax into not doing anything?
- 0:51Nicole Laino: Because we're going to have so much to do.
- 0:52Nicole Laino: We want to hit the ground running in January.
- 0:54Nicole Laino: There can be a lot of pressure that we feel.
- 0:58Nicole Laino: And, you know, your human design can give you a lot of insight into this as well.
- 1:04Nicole Laino: I'm somebody who has a pressure center for my.
- 1:08Nicole Laino: My un.
- 1:08Nicole Laino: For my.
- 1:09Nicole Laino: My conscious sun and my conscious earth are both in a pressure center.
- 1:15Nicole Laino: So I feel pressure a lot, and it's undefined.
- 1:17Nicole Laino: So I feel it even more.
- 1:18Nicole Laino: I feel it all the time coming at me in different ways.
- 1:23Nicole Laino: So it's.
- 1:23Nicole Laino: It's an interesting way of.
- 1:25Nicole Laino: Of understanding yourself.
- 1:26Nicole Laino: That's really what I feel like human design offers us and just being in a state of uncertainty, fear creeps up.
- 1:35Nicole Laino: So if you had a bad year in 2025 or you wish it were better, or, you know, whatever your situation, it didn't go to plan or it didn't meet your expectations in some way, your fear, your anxiety might have something to do with how am I going to shift things next year?
- 1:51Nicole Laino: How am I going to make next year different?
- 1:54Nicole Laino: How am I going to really make January, like, hit it with a bang so that I'm off to the races in 2026 is the best year I've ever had, right?
- 2:03Nicole Laino: And then if you've had a great year and I have been in this position, we had our best year in 2025.
- 2:09Nicole Laino: I'm super proud of it.
- 2:10Nicole Laino: So excited.
- 2:12Nicole Laino: And I have been noticing how much I slip into, well, how am I going to do it again or top it?
- 2:18Nicole Laino: Having to make this year better than this year, like, even better.
- 2:22Nicole Laino: I just outdid myself.
- 2:25Nicole Laino: We killed it this year, and we're changing things, and we're doing things differently.
- 2:32Nicole Laino: And so that.
- 2:33Nicole Laino: That uncertainty of doing things differently, things are changing.
- 2:36Nicole Laino: We're changing.
- 2:37Nicole Laino: I'm changing what I care about changes.
- 2:41Nicole Laino: I'm noticing so many shifts and that feeling of, like, how am I going to keep it up?
- 2:46Nicole Laino: How are we going to do it again?
- 2:47Nicole Laino: So whatever your situation is, this episode, what I wanted to do is I wanted to.
- 2:52Nicole Laino: I wanted to give you kind of three key insights that I've been working with that I've noticed that, you know, into how you can go from uncertainty to opportunity and use human design to help yourself get there.
- 3:07Nicole Laino: Okay, so this is going to be kind of a fairly energetic episode.
- 3:12Nicole Laino: We're going to talk a lot about the energies.
- 3:13Nicole Laino: We're going to talk about, you know, mindset and things like that, or at least my way of teaching energetic, which are typically a little bit more prescriptive or.
- 3:25Nicole Laino: Or we try to give you steps and real explanations behind the energetics, rather than just, you know, get into the energy of what you want, which most people don't really understand exactly how to do, and they end up more confused.
- 3:40Nicole Laino: And I understand that because I have been there.
- 3:42Nicole Laino: So we try to give you.
- 3:44Nicole Laino: And I'm going to do that in this episode.
- 3:45Nicole Laino: I'm really going to try to give you some.
- 3:47Nicole Laino: Some concrete steps that you can take so that you can find clarity in the uncertainty, so that you can find what's yours there.
- 3:56Nicole Laino: And, you know, so this is going to be a little energetic for, you know, a little less strategy than some of them.
- 4:03Nicole Laino: But if you are looking for some strategy, you're looking for strategy and energy for how you can plan your 2026, how you can start to feel a little, you know, lay a little bit of that strategic foundation along with the Energetics.
- 4:14Nicole Laino: I did New Year Guide.
- 4:16Nicole Laino: I call it the Unshakable Year Guide.
- 4:19Nicole Laino: This was a.
- 4:20Nicole Laino: This, you know, was born from the episodes that we did in December that have gotten really great feedback from our listeners.
- 4:26Nicole Laino: And then also just me kind of sitting there in disbelief that so many of my clients that came into BBD this year that are new to my world, how many said, when we did our 2026 planning session for our clients, how many of them said, no one ever taught them how to plan for that.
- 4:43Nicole Laino: They'd never done that before.
- 4:44Nicole Laino: And I think that's a travesty.
- 4:47Nicole Laino: So we created a guide for you.
- 4:49Nicole Laino: If you're interested in going through that, just DM me the words New Year 2026 on Instagram.
- 4:55Nicole Laino: We'll send it to you there in the DMS or go to nicolelaino.com forward/new year, and then you can download it right There from the website.
- 5:03Nicole Laino: Okay, so what I want you to notice, like, before we kick this off, I'm going to give you the three points.
- 5:08Nicole Laino: But before we do that and we dive into all of that, what I want to do is I just kind of want you to understand and always keep this in mind that when.
- 5:19Nicole Laino: When things feel difficult, ask yourself who you're being in that moment.
- 5:24Nicole Laino: Ask yourself if you can get into the habit of doing that, into noticing, am I putting my attention on what I want or what I don't want?
- 5:33Nicole Laino: And so much of, I think a lot of the uncertainty and confusion and difficulty people have at this time of year, sometimes is they're not really clear on what they want.
- 5:45Nicole Laino: They're not really clear on what they want.
- 5:47Nicole Laino: So start there and just start to feed yourself the food of the things that you want and start to make them feel real to yourself.
- 5:57Nicole Laino: This is just a really basic thing that, you know, it's.
- 6:01Nicole Laino: It's like Advanced Energetics and Advanced Human, but it's such a basic, simple thing to do that I think people sometimes take it for granted and don't do it.
- 6:09Nicole Laino: This is why Inside Business By Design, we have a private podcast feed for our clients where we have visualizations and other tools that they can use to get them in the habit of doing this every day.
- 6:20Nicole Laino: Because it changes who you are.
- 6:22Nicole Laino: It changes the way that you believe what you believe and what you have taught yourself to normalize as yours and what you want and how you see things and how you move and what you get to have.
- 6:37Nicole Laino: It starts to change it in your outside world.
- 6:40Nicole Laino: Now, it doesn't happen overnight.
- 6:42Nicole Laino: Some people do this stuff for, like, you know, a day or two, and then they fall off with it and they say it didn't work for them.
- 6:49Nicole Laino: You.
- 6:49Nicole Laino: You do have to commit to it.
- 6:51Nicole Laino: You have to commit to all of this stuff that I'm about to share with you.
- 6:53Nicole Laino: So I hope that you're.
- 6:54Nicole Laino: That you're.
- 6:55Nicole Laino: You're committed to committing.
- 6:57Nicole Laino: Okay, so.
- 6:58Nicole Laino: So that's just the one thing that I wanted to start with, was just to start just noticing what's coming up for you and what energy are you in.
- 7:08Nicole Laino: Are you in an energy of consistently battling yourself because you're afraid of certain things happening?
- 7:15Nicole Laino: Are you seeing the worst?
- 7:17Nicole Laino: Are you seeing the worst case scenario?
- 7:19Nicole Laino: If you are, I invite you to shift that.
- 7:22Nicole Laino: I encourage you to focus on what you do want, not what you do not want.
- 7:28Nicole Laino: This takes some practice.
- 7:29Nicole Laino: It's so simple, we forget to do it, but it is an Irreplaceable skill in your toolbox.
- 7:35Nicole Laino: I encourage you all to make this a habit.
- 7:38Nicole Laino: Okay, and now, human design.
- 7:41Nicole Laino: We'll get into the human design stuff now and the three points that I have for you.
- 7:46Nicole Laino: But human design gives us this unique window into our specific process as an individual.
- 7:54Nicole Laino: How you process things and what you are going to be going through and how you are going to be expanding.
- 7:59Nicole Laino: Experiencing this time of year is going to be, yes, about the world that you live in and the things that have happened to you, but it's much more going to be determined by who you are.
- 8:10Nicole Laino: And that's what I think human design is so cool about.
- 8:13Nicole Laino: Like, what it really allows us to do is tune into, how are you different from me?
- 8:19Nicole Laino: How does your process work so that I don't just give you my framework for what worked for me?
- 8:25Nicole Laino: That's wonderful and helpful, but sometimes it can be damaging because then it doesn't work for you.
- 8:30Nicole Laino: And all we had to do is just tweak the way you were doing it.
- 8:34Nicole Laino: That's the beauty of this.
- 8:36Nicole Laino: So the first insight I have for you about human design and, you know, turning uncertainty into opportunity, creating clarity at this point is clarity is not a state of mind.
- 8:50Nicole Laino: Clarity is a frequency in your energy.
- 8:55Nicole Laino: Okay, now, the power of the mind.
- 8:58Nicole Laino: This is the first point that I have for you.
- 9:01Nicole Laino: The power of the mind is so powerful, and if you are giving too much power to your mind, you will be less aligned.
- 9:12Nicole Laino: You will absolutely have more anxiety and feel that frequency of uncertainty the most when you're giving too much power to your mind.
- 9:22Nicole Laino: So this is the essence of human design is it takes the power away from the mind.
- 9:27Nicole Laino: It puts it back in your body.
- 9:30Nicole Laino: It teaches you to operate differently rather than thinking about everything so much.
- 9:36Nicole Laino: Now, I am saying this as a person who has an open head center and whose conscious sun and conscious earth sit in that open head center.
- 9:45Nicole Laino: I know a whole lot about overthinking, about trying to create answers in my mind, thinking about things.
- 9:55Nicole Laino: And I understand the discomfort that this causes probably more than most people.
- 10:04Nicole Laino: I still get there.
- 10:05Nicole Laino: I still end up there, because these are.
- 10:09Nicole Laino: These are our patterns.
- 10:11Nicole Laino: They never completely stop.
- 10:12Nicole Laino: We just get better at catching ourselves in them, of knowing what they are, which takes some of that pressure off, which takes some of that fear out of it, because we just go, oh, that's just the mechanics of how I work.
- 10:24Nicole Laino: That's just the squeaky door down the hall.
- 10:27Nicole Laino: I can oil it, but it's probably going to squeak again at some point.
- 10:31Nicole Laino: If we Use that door enough.
- 10:32Nicole Laino: Right?
- 10:34Nicole Laino: So this is what I'm talking about.
- 10:35Nicole Laino: So just the first thing I want you to do is to notice.
- 10:38Nicole Laino: Am I giving too much power to my mind?
- 10:40Nicole Laino: Am I thinking through so many things?
- 10:43Nicole Laino: And if you are thinking through them, are you thinking through them in like I walk around thinking about these things all day or are you working them out?
- 10:53Nicole Laino: Are you talking about them?
- 10:55Nicole Laino: Are you, are you writing them down?
- 10:58Nicole Laino: Are you know, journaling on things where you're getting it out of your mind?
- 11:04Nicole Laino: Your mind is an echo chamber and it will drive you insane if you allow your thoughts to just rattle around in there and ping pong back and forth looking for answer that does not exist up there.
- 11:17Nicole Laino: Clarity comes in space, in spaciousness.
- 11:22Nicole Laino: So I invite you to look at this week, at this time between, you know, where we are now, and then going back to work and kicking things into gear in January.
- 11:33Nicole Laino: I invite you to create some space here and ask yourself some good questions and enjoy yourself and put the power back in your body and your strategy and authority will always save you from this.
- 11:51Nicole Laino: Strategy and authority does not exist in the mind.
- 11:54Nicole Laino: It exists only in the body or in your environment, depending on what your authority is.
- 11:59Nicole Laino: If you are a mental projector or a reflector, you're going to have a more, a little bit of a different authority than the rest of us, but it's still different than thinking about it.
- 12:11Nicole Laino: Okay, now the second point that I have for you is on, like, kind of going with this theme of authority.
- 12:19Nicole Laino: The second thing that's going to help you turn uncertainty into clarity and opportunity is your inner authority.
- 12:27Nicole Laino: It gives you a clue and tells you a lot about your process, your inner authority.
- 12:32Nicole Laino: So if you're an emotional authority, like I am, I'm an emotional authority.
- 12:37Nicole Laino: If you're an emotional authority and you are trying to know now, now, now, if you're putting pressure on yourself to have answer right now, you will most likely become anxious because that's not how it works for us.
- 12:54Nicole Laino: We are wisdom over time, people.
- 12:57Nicole Laino: If you are not giving yourself time, there will be no wisdom, just anxiety.
- 13:04Nicole Laino: So you're creating some of this.
- 13:05Nicole Laino: You're creating it.
- 13:07Nicole Laino: If you understand how your process works, you will start to understand how you're creating some of this frequency in your body.
- 13:15Nicole Laino: And the frequency is what we attach, we attract with our frequency, our energetic frequency.
- 13:22Nicole Laino: If your energetic frequency is fear and anxiety and feeling that pressure move you into this space of, of really being uncomfortable with the uncertainty because uncertainty Itself isn't bad.
- 13:37Nicole Laino: Uncertainty is fine.
- 13:39Nicole Laino: It's how we react to the uncertainty.
- 13:41Nicole Laino: And if you are allowing that to create a really broken kind of choppiness in your frequency because you're scared, that's a low vibration and you're going to start to get more of that versus what you are actually looking for now.
- 13:58Nicole Laino: Reflectors and mental projectors.
- 14:00Nicole Laino: I meant to mentioned you just a couple of seconds ago, but I'm also going to bring you up now.
- 14:05Nicole Laino: If you are trying to come up with answers right now, if you are putting that pressure on yourself, you don't have the same, it doesn't work the same as it does for emotional authorities.
- 14:15Nicole Laino: But you have very much a similar process which is time, which is noticing things.
- 14:22Nicole Laino: It's, it's going to be, you're not going to have this instant feedback thing like the sacrals get.
- 14:30Nicole Laino: You're not going to just get ooh, aha.
- 14:31Nicole Laino: I go.
- 14:32Nicole Laino: That's not how it works for you either.
- 14:34Nicole Laino: There is a patience that has to be cultivated.
- 14:38Nicole Laino: So that can tell you a lot about your practice and your process that you have to create some time and space for yourself.
- 14:50Nicole Laino: The answer will drop in for you.
- 14:52Nicole Laino: The clarity will come if you give yourself that time, if you give yourself that space.
- 14:58Nicole Laino: Without it you will most likely start to go into a very deeply conditioned state.
- 15:04Nicole Laino: Just, just things start to really feel off and pull at you and pull you in different directions and that doesn't feel good.
- 15:13Nicole Laino: Splenic AUTHORITIES if you're not trusting your intuition, if you aren't trusting those little hits that you get, those little whispers that you get, those little notes from the universe, the whisper in your ear.
- 15:26Nicole Laino: If you don't trust it and you're thinking about these things, then you are going to feel off our self projected projectors.
- 15:35Nicole Laino: If you are conforming, if you are looking like if you find yourself doom scrolling and looking at what everybody else is doing, if you lose your sense of self, you lose everything.
- 15:48Nicole Laino: So for you, that uncertainty, you have to find it in yourself.
- 15:51Nicole Laino: You have to find it in what feels like you.
- 15:54Nicole Laino: So your inner authority is what's going to give you outer authority, which is what most of us are looking for.
- 15:59Nicole Laino: We were looking to have an impact.
- 16:01Nicole Laino: We're looking to have people say yes.
- 16:02Nicole Laino: We're looking to have people react to us in a favorable way so that they buy things from us or they ask us to collaborate with them or they keep listening to our show.
- 16:13Nicole Laino: But that outer authority can't Come until we have our own inner authority and we're really being ruled by it.
- 16:19Nicole Laino: If I show up here in my conditioning and in my not self in a big way, this message isn't going to land.
- 16:29Nicole Laino: It's not going to hit you the way that it's meant to.
- 16:32Nicole Laino: My intention won't be felt, and I will probably then keep wondering, what am I doing wrong?
- 16:38Nicole Laino: What am I doing wrong?
- 16:39Nicole Laino: What am I doing wrong?
- 16:41Nicole Laino: That would be the mind guiding it.
- 16:43Nicole Laino: But instead, we are here, and I hope that you are receiving this.
- 16:48Nicole Laino: Okay, now, the third point, the third piece of how human design can help you really shift from uncertainty to clarity and creating opportunity from that clarity is, this is something that I want you to notice.
- 17:04Nicole Laino: This is the thing that I want you to turn your awareness to.
- 17:08Nicole Laino: But your conscious sun and your conscious earth, this is the guiding light of your chart.
- 17:14Nicole Laino: These are two, the two most powerful pieces of your incarnation.
- 17:19Nicole Laino: Cross.
- 17:19Nicole Laino: This is what's going to really lead who you are as a person.
- 17:23Nicole Laino: These shadows of these two gates are so powerful.
- 17:29Nicole Laino: But particularly take a look at the shadow of your conscious sun.
- 17:35Nicole Laino: That shadow is probably going to show up so much.
- 17:40Nicole Laino: If you are in your head, if you're in your mind, you're going to find that.
- 17:48Nicole Laino: That, that path of the mind is going to lead you straight into that shadow.
- 17:53Nicole Laino: And it's very difficult to get out of.
- 17:56Nicole Laino: It's very difficult to get out of it.
- 17:58Nicole Laino: Well, I'll say this.
- 17:59Nicole Laino: You can't think your way out of it.
- 18:01Nicole Laino: You can't think your way out of that shadow.
- 18:02Nicole Laino: You can only surrender.
- 18:04Nicole Laino: You can only surrender.
- 18:05Nicole Laino: And instead of staring at the shadow being like, how do I get out of this?
- 18:09Nicole Laino: How do I get out of this?
- 18:09Nicole Laino: How do I get out of this?
- 18:10Nicole Laino: How do I get out of this?
- 18:11Nicole Laino: I always tell my clients, a shadow never goes away.
- 18:15Nicole Laino: I have a light on me right now as I'm recording this.
- 18:18Nicole Laino: I have a light, bright light shining on me.
- 18:20Nicole Laino: If I turn around, there's a shadow there.
- 18:22Nicole Laino: There always will be.
- 18:24Nicole Laino: Where there is light, there is shadow.
- 18:27Nicole Laino: We never make it go away.
- 18:29Nicole Laino: All we can do is turn and look at the light instead of the shadow.
- 18:33Nicole Laino: We put our focus someplace else.
- 18:36Nicole Laino: This is what I'm talking about focusing on what you want versus what you don't want.
- 18:41Nicole Laino: Putting your energy into what you want to create, into what matters to you and what you want to see more of.
- 18:49Nicole Laino: Most of the time, we are so busy focused on what we don't want.
- 18:53Nicole Laino: And we do this with the shadows, and it becomes this downward Space spiral and the shadow of your conscious sun is probably going to be one of, if not the most prominent shadow in your chart.
- 19:05Nicole Laino: That depends on the chart.
- 19:07Nicole Laino: Mine sits in a pressure center in an open head.
- 19:12Nicole Laino: It's.
- 19:13Nicole Laino: It's my most common one because it's where I give power away to the mind because it is a mind gate.
- 19:20Nicole Laino: If you have 64, 63, or 61 in your conscious sun and it's an open head, then you know you're probably going to lean on overthinking even more than the average person.
- 19:34Nicole Laino: And most people go into overthinking no matter what.
- 19:38Nicole Laino: Even if you have a defined head, you go into overthinking.
- 19:40Nicole Laino: You're just overthinking about different things.
- 19:43Nicole Laino: It's a.
- 19:43Nicole Laino: It's a busy mind.
- 19:45Nicole Laino: So I. I hope that you can see how these three pieces can help you find the space that's required in order to create opportunity and clarity in this type of.
- 19:56Nicole Laino: In this type of moment, to really focus on what you want and to create enough space in your energy to believe that it can happen and to keep your focus there rather than getting so scared that what you want can't happen and causing you to expand this state and frequency of uncertainty in your energy.
- 20:21Nicole Laino: Great things happen when we are certain that we will either get the result that we want or the lesson that we need, that we know we are moving in the right direction, or that we know we are on the path and that we are being led.
- 20:37Nicole Laino: This is why people of faith a lot of times can make miracles happen because they're surrendered to the process.
- 20:45Nicole Laino: They're surrendered to the path.
- 20:48Nicole Laino: I always say I never know if.
- 20:51Nicole Laino: If the path will lead me to where I want to go, but I know if I am aligned with my design and I am surrendered to these things and I am on my path, then I know that I will get where I need to go.
- 21:08Nicole Laino: I will get the result that I want or the lesson that I need, and I just have to let it go at that.
- 21:15Nicole Laino: I can't control anymore.
- 21:18Nicole Laino: Wanting to control is what puts us in the mind because we try to think our way into controlling an outcome.
- 21:26Nicole Laino: We can't always do that.
- 21:27Nicole Laino: We can think a little bit.
- 21:28Nicole Laino: I'm giving you a planning guide.
- 21:30Nicole Laino: I plan, but I. I'm very flexible in those plans.
- 21:36Nicole Laino: And there's so much energy in the planning process and in noticing how a lot of people are sitting here at the end of this year saying, why didn't I do the things that I said that I would do at the Start of the year in 2025.
- 21:52Nicole Laino: 2025 started and I said I was going to do X, Y and Z.
- 21:55Nicole Laino: And I didn't do a lot of those things.
- 21:57Nicole Laino: Why didn't I?
- 21:59Nicole Laino: These are good questions to ask.
- 22:02Nicole Laino: Sometimes we can get derailed, but it's asking these questions without criticism, but with curiosity that we get to shift to something better, that we get to grow.
- 22:14Nicole Laino: That's what real growth is.
- 22:16Nicole Laino: So plan.
- 22:18Nicole Laino: Use the guide.
- 22:19Nicole Laino: We have it for you.
- 22:21Nicole Laino: Plan.
- 22:22Nicole Laino: But, but don't make the planning everything.
- 22:26Nicole Laino: Do this other work to notice what's coming up for you so that you're able to be the type of person who can execute those plans this year and who can pivot if the plan does or doesn't work and you need to change something or shift something because of something that happened.
- 22:46Nicole Laino: That is what this type of system, like human design, helps us do because we develop a sense of trust in something other than the plan and our mind.
- 22:58Nicole Laino: Okay, now we have some really exciting things coming up in January and February.
- 23:03Nicole Laino: Please stay tuned.
- 23:05Nicole Laino: We're not announcing them just yet, but they're very, very exciting.
- 23:07Nicole Laino: We're going to be doing more workshops and little programs and things with you guys.
- 23:12Nicole Laino: So I have some really exciting one.
- 23:13Nicole Laino: I have one that I'm super excited about putting all the things together for January.
- 23:17Nicole Laino: So I hope that you join us for that.
- 23:19Nicole Laino: Stay tuned.
- 23:19Nicole Laino: We'll have details very soon.
- 23:21Nicole Laino: And if you're not on our email list already, you should get on it, download the New Year Guide and that will put download any of our guides.
- 23:26Nicole Laino: It'll put you automatically on our email list.
- 23:29Nicole Laino: And then you'll be the first to know and you'll get the best pricing on the things that we are dropping in January and February.
- 23:35Nicole Laino: Okay?
- 23:36Nicole Laino: So stay tuned for those things.
- 23:37Nicole Laino: If you want the New year guide, just DM me the word New Year 26 on Instagram.
- 23:42Nicole Laino: I'm icoleno official.
- 23:43Nicole Laino: Or go to nicolelaino.com newyear and you can download it right there on the website.
- 23:49Nicole Laino: Thank you so much for being here.
- 23:51Nicole Laino: I appreciate you.
- 23:52Nicole Laino: And remember, in order to have an unshakable business, you must first become an unshakable human.
- 23:57Nicole Laino: So thanks for letting us help you become unshakable with human design.
- 24:00Nicole Laino: We'll see you next year, everybody.
- 24:02Nicole Laino: Bye.